Kafenio

Most kafenia provide meze or free snacks and rarely serve full meals.

Kafenia often serve as social centers of the villages and islands where they are located.

People socialize after work or play a game of cards.

[2] The word comes from earlier Greek καφενές, which is borrowed from Turkish kahvehane or kahvene ("coffeehouse"), in turn derived from the Persian qahveh-khaneh (< Arabic qahve 'coffee' + Persian khane 'house').

[3] Other Balkan languages have also borrowed the Turkish term, as kafana, kavane, kaveana, etc.